Zombi even had one of the main lures of ZombiU, in that if the player was eaten, you'd see them reappear as one of the undead.

So far, so reboot.

That's about where the simlarities end, though. Being a 1986 game for personal computers, Zombi was pretty limited in what it could achieve, and was based entirely in a shopping mall as a homage to Dawn of the Dead (the name Zombi is the Italian title for Romero's film). The action was limited to individual "rooms", which you could make your way through in first-person.

Foreshadowing later titles such as Dead Rising, the game also took place in real-time.